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Thomas Chestre was the
author of a 14th-century
Middle English romance Sir Launfal, a
verse romance of 1045
lines based ultimately on
Marie de France's...
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Alice Chestre (sometimes
written "Chester" or "Chestour") (died 1485) was a
merchant and a
benefactor of the city of Bristol, England. She
married Henry...
- is a 1045-line
Middle English romance or
Breton lay
written by
Thomas Chestre dating from the late 14th century. It is
based primarily on the 538-line...
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Grail Geoffrey Chaucer 14th
Middle English The
Canterbury Tales Thomas Chestre 14th
Middle English Sir Launfal,
Libeaus Desconus Geoffrey of Monmouth...
- songe, Or
elles redden hem for hir plesaunce. 'Sir Launfal', by
Thomas Chestre (a
retelling of an
earlier Middle English lai, 'Landavale',
itself a translation...
- Unknown" story,
running to
about around 2,200 lines,
attributed to
Thomas Chestre. It is a
version or an
adaptation of
Renaut de Beaujeu's Le Bel Inconnu...
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Itineraries (c. 1538–43) and says that "there was a
Celle of
Monkes of
Chestre and a
Pilgrimage of Our Lady of Hilbyri",
though his
contemporary description...
- France's
probably late-12th-century Anglo-Norman poem
Lanval (and
Thomas Chestre's later Middle English version, Sir Launfal),
Guinevere is a
viciously vindictive...
- Arthur's
court and
subsequent adventures are related,
possibly by
Thomas Chestre, in the
Middle English version of the
story of The Fair Unknown, or Lybeaus...
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Thomas Chestre is
arguably an
adaptation from Renaut's Bel
Inconnu (BI), and
scholars have
disputed over this issue, but one
solution is that
Chestre drew...
